Books Received

Buddhist Attitudes to Other Religions. Edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel. St. Ottilien, Germany: EOS Verlag, 2008. Pp. 299. Paper €19,80.

China: Fragile Superpower. By Susan L. Shirk. New York: Oxford University Press 2008. Pp. xi + 320. Paper $16.95.

Daodejing: A Literal-Critical Translation. Joseph Hsu. Lanham: University Press of America. Pp. xvii + 159. Paper $27.00.

Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. By Rosemarie Tong. Boulder: Westview Press. Pp. xi + 417 Paper $45.00, $48.00 CAN

An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy. By Karyn L. Lai. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 307. Hardcover $90.00. Paper $34.99.

Life Philosophy for the 21^st Century. By T. C. Lea. New York: Vantage Press, xxix + 97. Hardcover $24.00.

The Mādhavanidāna: With 'Madhukośa', the Commentary by Vijayaraksita and Śrīkanthadatta (Ch. 1–10). Translated by G. J. Meulenbeld. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008. Pp. xii + 709. Hardcover Rs 1,495.

Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries Translated by Bryan W. Van Norden. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett, 2008. Pp. liv + 207. Hardcover $37.95. Paper $12.95.

Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition. By Douglas S. Duckworth. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Pp. xxxiv + 292. Hardcover $80.00.

The Nature of Sexual Desire. By James Giles. Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. Pp. x + 218. Price not given.

Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations. Victor Sōgen Hori and Melissa Anne-Marie Curley Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 2008. vi + 261. Price not given.

The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century Edited by Douglas Allen. Lanham: Lexington Books. xviii + 263. Hardcover $75.00. Paper $29.95.

Plant Lives: Borderline Beings in Indian Traditions. By Ellison Banks Findly. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, xxxii + 617. Hardcover Rs 1,095.

Principles of Buddhist Tantra: A Discourse on Cittaviśuddhi-prakarana of Āryadeva. By Mathew Varghese. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, Pp. xvii + 282 Hardcover Rs 600.

Providence Lost. By Genevieve Lloyd. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 369 Hardcover $29.95.

Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism. By Adrian Kuzminski. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. xiv + 155 Hardcover $65.00.

Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey: Pragmatism and Interactive Constructivism in the Twenty-first Century. Edited by Jim Garrison. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 210. Hardcover $60.00.

Searles Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement. Edited by Bo Mou. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. Pp. xv + 440. Hardcover €99, $148.00.

Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China. By Paul A. Cohen. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, xxiv + 354. Hardcover $39.95, £23.95.

Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary. By David Shulman. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xvi + 234. Hardcover $25.00, £13.00.

Sūksmādvaita: An Interpretation of Advaita Vedānta and Mādhyamika Buddhism. By M. A. Cherian. Kent, UK: Dr. M. A. Cherian, 2007. Pp. 165. Paper £10.

The Teachings of the Odd-eyed One: A Study and Translation of the Virñpāksapañcāśikā, with the Commentary of Vidyācakravartin. By David Peter Lawrence. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii + 195. Hardcover $60.00.

Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson. Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen.Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008. Pp. ix + 478. Paper Rs 595.